Keywords:
Liver, Ultrasound, MR, CT, Intraoperative, Neoplasia, Metastases
Authors:
I. Ridene, S. Moueddeb, H. Houissa, S. Mannai; Ariana/TN
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2018/C-1498
Aims and objectives
Intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS) has been an important imaging tool for guiding hepatic surgery since its inception in the early 1980s [1-3].
In fact,
it has long been considered as the most sensitive and reliable technique for detecting and localizing hepatic lesions as well as their association with major vascular structures [4,5].
But with modern progresses in preoperative cross-sectional imaging of the liver,
especially with the inception of multislice computed tomography and diffusion weighted imaging in MRI [6-9],
its role has become controversed [10-13].
The purpose of our study was to determine if IOUS still provides new information about hepatobiliary lesions ,
locoregional staging and vascular anatomy in comparison with cross-sectional imaging.
Our aim was also to evaluate IOUS's impact on surgical strategy.